Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) It shall be the duty of the Board to take necessary measures to maintain, allot, lease or otherwise use the Board premises and to collect rents, compensation and damages in respect thereof. (2) The Board may,—- (i) provide technical advice to the State Govern- ment and scrutinize projects under housing schemes in the area to which this Act extends when required by the State Government to do so; (ii) undertake research on various problems con- nected with housing in general and find out in particular the economical methods of cons- tructing houses suited to local conditions ; (iii) undertake comprehensive surveys of problems of housing ; (iv) grant loans to individuals or body of indi— viduals for building houses under different schemes either at their own instance or under the direction of the State Government and recover the loans in such manner and in such procedure as may be prescribed ; Other duties of the Board. Md to msmne magnum of requisi- tioned lands. lcconstim- tion of plots. Power to exempt schemes from provisions of sections 26 to 31. ponding law for the time 18 (v) do all things for— (a) unification, simplification and standar- disation of building materials ; (b) encouraging pre-fabrication and mass production of house components ; (c) organising or undertaking the production of building materials for residential or non—residential house; securing a steady and suflicient supply of workmen trained in the work of cons- truction of buildings.